MANURING PASTURES.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5019, 27 August 1926, Page 2

MANURING PASTURES.

EXPERIMENTAL PLOTS ON PLAINS ESTABLISHMENT AT TURUA. For very many years the matter of having experimental plots established oh the Hauraki Plains for the purpose of .ascertaining and demonstrating the effects of various fertilisers on pasture production has received spasmodic attention from groups, of farmers. Howeyer, what has been everybody’s business has been nobody’s particular busines/s, and the matter has never got beyond the talking stage. While such an experiment would be of great benefit to farmers, it would also be of benefit to trading concerns to demonstrate the effects Of their particular brands of fertilisers?. Thus it has come about that an offer, has been made, by a well-knotwn Auckland firm to the Hauraki Plains Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., to establish an experimental plot near Turua if a farmer would lend the land necessary for a couple of years. The offer was made to the annual meeting of sharehoilders on Wednesday, and. from the comments of the directors it will undoubtedly be accepted. An area of two or three acres will be required, vand the firm will erect the ftew fences necessary and supply the fertiliser. Pegs will be, utilised to mark the various plots., and the landowner will be required to observe which plots do the best and which plots: are preferred by Iris cattle . A small strip of each plot will be fenced to enable the undisturbed growth of grass, to/ be noted.